The legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's work

The legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's work

The legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's work

My article discusses Paul Auster’s debt to Samuel Beckett. I discuss an early play of Auster’s, called ‘Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven,’ and his novel The Music of Chance in relation to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I will be proposing that Beckett’s influence on Auster was quite pronounced in his early work, but as he has grown in confidence as a writer this influence is less apparent, and he has created a voice and a style very much his own, although Beckett can still be glimpsed, albeit fleetingly, beneath the surface.

9788323331179

325-338

Jagiellonian University Press

Campbell, Julie

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Bela, Teresa

Mazur, Zygmunt

2011

Campbell, Julie

8651d768-dd71-4b4e-8c19-98f32b53c1d5

Bela, Teresa

Mazur, Zygmunt

Campbell, Julie(2011)The legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's work.Bela, Teresa and Mazur, Zygmunt
(eds.)
In Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning: English and American Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Jagiellonian University Press.pp. 325-338
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My article discusses Paul Auster’s debt to Samuel Beckett. I discuss an early play of Auster’s, called ‘Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven,’ and his novel The Music of Chance in relation to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I will be proposing that Beckett’s influence on Auster was quite pronounced in his early work, but as he has grown in confidence as a writer this influence is less apparent, and he has created a voice and a style very much his own, although Beckett can still be glimpsed, albeit fleetingly, beneath the surface.

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Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning: English and American Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century, 2011-01-01